Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-14

% nm bank full for some hours after
ward. temporarily draining every otnei
ceyser and spring in the neighborhood
dry. Old Faithful was the only one
who paid no attention to the giant, go
ING off regularly every hour and keep
inc mn the credit OF his good name IN
spite OF the efforts of the liking OF the
Basin" to choke him of. :,
MANY new wonders have developed
This year which promise to eclipse IN
grandeur the beautiful geysers, boiling
cauldrons, mud-pots, and falls. Inc
Sobbing Fountain. Bleeding Heart
cpring, Silyer-Globe Geyser, and
Fountain Geyser can certainly have
no superior in the park or elsewhere on
Garth. The fountain has neither chm
new nor crater, being simply a large,
hot, opeD.iaced blue spring, when Is
ACQUIRING beneath it somewhere pow
or more vast and huge than any other
fount or spring in the park. You
come upon this large (3Ox5O) spring
and would teke it for anything else but
a geyser. When an eruption IS about
10 occur tiny little squirt or jet oil
water is sent dancing into the air from
small orifice near by called the "in-
dicator," and few seconds afterwards
crash bang! splash goes the big
blue spring, and one of the rarest spec
tacles in the park is before your eyes.
Having no crater or chimney, the water
simply goes I'D in a mass, and, not beng
allie TO come down on the ascending
volume. falls gracefully outwards,
forming gigantic fountain sparkling
with rainbow colors and dripping with
a million glistening beads. This is I'M
doubtedly new geyser, and will per-
baps in time build up for itself hand
some Gaping or throat, equal in beauty
and design to the others in the basins.
Possibly all the geyser formations were
begun in this way. When the cone IS
constructed for the "fountain," the
mass of water it now throws out indi-
Gates that it will be the most powerful
geyser Of them all. s s~n@ e. 81 90
A LITTLE WONDER.
The Silver Globe Springs is. off the
line of travel, and consequently IS
never seen except by those who spe-
cially 90 ont of the way for thepurpose.
1t is an old trail from the Midway to
the Upper Basin, its popularity never
being discovered by the first visitors
who passed the little insignificant pool
of water by, and was only found lately
by Mr.. Henderson, who is always on
the lookout for new discoveries. This
little wonder spouts forth the most
beautiful bubbles imaginable. Fancy
a succession of soap bubbles sailing in
the air, lit up by rainbow colors and
glinting with sunshine, and you have
the eccentricity of the Silver Globe
Spring complete. The spring itself is
also marvel Of beauty in its own way.
Funnel.shaped down to a point lost In
the depths of the earth, bordered with
spongy, jelly-like edging of green
moss, habitually of soft yellow satin
tint, and yet ever changing into the
most delicate shades of pink and red
the spring, is, indeed, the peer of any
thing in the park. Now stand on the edge
and watch that tiny round glass object
no larger than a pea which is slowly
rising to the surface. The pea de-
velors into a globe of silver, and as 1t
comes upward it suddenly increases in
size and makes a dash for the surface.
Cut comes the bubbles and up mounts
the balloon into the air, but only for
an instant does it oscillate, when all at
once the bubble collapses, the gaseous
interior escapes, the vision yanishes, and
another rises to take its place. ~